A form of heavy metal / hard rock which consontraites on writing about blokish type subjects; cars, motorbikes, war, sex, fighting etc. Normally they are european based acts, but there are exceptions. The viking chorus is the most noticable of all manrock cleches

an ancient genre of music which derived from the blues era and steadily turned into the a form of hard rock music that can only be classed by this genre if abiding to the theory: if you can slouch in a chair/couch/recliner etc, put one hand down your trousers and one hand holding a tin of beer, whilst headbanging slightly and without feeling any sort of shame in doing any of these.